The disappointing season also saw fans start to become frustrated with the constant injuries to ace pitchers Mark Prior and Kerry Wood.

Prior to the start of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood declared Davenport to be Iowa's first military headquarters and five camps were set up in the city to aid the Union.

Prior to the start of the game, a coin is tossed and the winning captain can choose a starting end or start with the ball.

Prior to the start of the season the Astros acquired outfielder Billy Hatcher from the Cubs for Jerry Mumphrey.

Prior to the start of the book he had attempted to steal from some of his partners in crime.

Prior to ABBA's formation, Björn and Benny were living in a Volkswagen bus and had decided to leave music and gain regular jobs, however Anderson persuaded them to start a new band, investing considerable money in the group.

Prior to the widespread use of word processors, bullets were often denoted either by a lower-case “ o ” filed-in with ink or by asterisks (*), and several word processors automatically convert asterisks to bullets if used at the start of line.

Prior to the 1998 – 99 season, the 76ers signed George Lynch and Matt Geiger, but a lengthy lockout delayed the start of the season, which was shortened to 50 games.

Prior to the start of the 2007 – 08 season, the Blue Jackets organization brought a hand-made replica 1857 Napoleon cannon into Nationwide Arena.

Prior to the start of the 2011 – 12 season, Athletic Club's socios ( full members ) held their latest presidential election, which saw incumbent Fernando García Macua defeated by former long-serving player Josu Urrutia.

Prior to the start of the 2012 – 13 season, Athletic went through a period of some turmoil.

Prior to the start of the 1959 – 60 season saw the arrival of arguably the club's greatest ever manager, Alec Stock.

Prior to the start of the 1965 season, the club moved to a new training, administration and home game base at Moorabbin Oval in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Prior to the start of the Revolutionary War, the early Quaker settlers became dissatisfied with the quality of the farmland within Newberry Township and began moving out of it.

Prior to the start of the Second World War technology had improved so that it appeared that the interceptor mission would be effectively impossible.

Prior to the start of the 2005 – 06 season, Bayern moved from the Olympic Stadium to the new Allianz Arena, which the club shares with 1860 Munich.

Prior to the start of the festival, Lee wrote an e-mail to the publicist of the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, copying in other comedians, in response to the announcement of a poll to find the public's favourite act from 30 years of the award, which was previously known as the Perrier Award.

Prior to the start of the journal, NAS published three volumes of organizational transactions, consisting mostly of minutes of meetings and annual reports.

Prior to the NCAA's 2008 rule in Division I regarding the start of the college baseball season, the Golden Gophers would often play home games at Metrodome earlier than other teams in the area to neutralize the advantage of warmer-weather schools starting their seasons earlier in the year.

Prior to the start of that season, the team was forced to sell Daniels to the Indiana Pacers for cash to pay off accumulated debts.

Prior to the start of Systole, the LV is filled with blood to the capacity known as End Diastolic Volume ( EDV ) during the filling phase or diastole.

Prior to the start of the campaign, the Predators announced defenceman Kimmo Timonen as the team's new captain, while naming Kariya and Steve Sullivan as alternates ( the two served in that role the previous season, as well, but not on a permanent basis ).

Prior to the start of the tournament, hopes were not as high for Germany as in previous tournaments ( even in Germany itself ), even though it was the host nation.

Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.

Prior to 1991, the Somali Navy participated in several joint exercises with the United States, Great Britain and Canada.

Prior to the opening of the link, an average of 8, 000 cars used the ferries across the Great Belt every day.

Prior to that, rulers of Muscovy were crowned as Grand Princes, although Ivan III the Great, his grandfather, styled himself " tsar " in his correspondence.

Prior to 1966, the Erie Railroad's Caldwell Branch ( a part of New York and Greenwood Lake Railway ) ran passenger service through Verona from Great Notch.

Prior to this time, many early ranchers had driven cattle over the Great Western Cattle Trail from Texas to Dodge City, Kansas, the present townsite of Elk City being in the direct path of that famous trail.

Prior to 1929 and the Great Depression, a number of businesses flourished in the city.

Prior to the war the college ’ s future was previously in jeopardy during the Great Depression and resulting local bank closures.

Prior to and during the early European settlement, the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway to the Mississippi River system was one of the most heavily traveled routes between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

Prior to becoming King of Persia, he held the title Great King of Armenia.

Prior to the 1820s, Norwich was served by vessels using the River Yare, which flows through Breydon Water before joining the River Bure and then the North Sea near Great Yarmouth.

Prior to Captain Meade's command, Great Lakes ' water level readings were taken locally with temporary gauges ; a uniform plane of reference had not been established.

Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet ( 1948 ), for which she received her first Oscar nomination.

Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal to traffic on 15 August 1914, a controversy with Great Britain respecting the interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty arose.

This time, the Prior was executed ; his severed head was placed on a pike in the Great Market.

Prior to 1939, Mauritius coinage circulated in the Seychelles, even though the islands had been politically autonomous of Mauritius since 1903 as a crown colony of Great Britain.

Prior to the Great Saiyaman Saga, Krillin opted to settle down with his new family, and allows his black hair to finally grow out.

Prior to the introduction of diesel-electric locomotives, Electric shunting locomotives were used to an extent in Great Britain where heavy trains needed to be started on steep gradients.

Prior to 1960, the Production Engineering Research Association of Great Britain ( PERA ) came to the town on Nottingham Road and employed around four hundred people in supporting research and development in industry.

Prior to devolution the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales had those respective responsibilities but the Department of Health had a larger role than now in the co-ordination of health policy across Great Britain.

Prior to the war, Pegahmagabow worked as a marine fireman for the Department of Marine and Fisheries on the Great Lakes.

He, along with the four or five other Great Officers — the Lord Prior of St John, who acts as the lieutenant of and deputy to the Grand Prior ; the Prelate, a member of episcopal rank in the Church of England ; the Deputy Lord Prior or Priors, depending on the Grand Prior's needs, who act accordingly as lieutenants and deputies to the Lord Prior ; and the Sub-Prelate, who has interests in the commanderies and associations of the organization — as well as the Priors and Chancellors of each of the order's eight priories and the Hospitaller make up the Grand Council.